Public Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Public Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Public Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Known in its day as the Public Buildings, this structure is what Philadelphians now call City Hall, the granite complex at the center of Penn Square. Construction began in 1871 and ran for three decades, so when this print was made around 1896 the building was still going up, and its central tower had recently been crowned with a statue of William Penn. The record's caption data is unverified, but the title and date point to the city's most ambitious civic project of the period, whose scale and French Second Empire design made it a landmark of municipal government.
| Created / published | c1896. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Campbell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,351 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106007 |
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